‘Queen of Pop’ jailed for 12 months
Lives go astray when stars fade out of the lime light and at times when they are not able to earn the same money they once did with utter ease, it leads them to indulging in some crimes. Former Australian Queen of Pop Allison Durbin has been jailed for 12 months for drug trafficking. Durbin, now known by her married name Allison Giles, was handed a 24-month jail term today but half of the sentence was suspended. The reclusive former pop star, who shot to fame in the 1960s and 70s, had pleaded guilty in the Victorian County Court to trafficking a drug of dependence, cultivating a narcotic plant and theft of electricity. The court heard Giles, 57, had a hydroponic set-up at a house in West Footscray and supplied cannabis to drug dealer and father of snatched baby Montana, Giuseppe Dom Barbaro, in 2003 and 2004. Life is not easy and therefore it tests even a former Queen of Pop, but she took the easy way out and is now paying for her deeds.